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30 August 2015

On This Day: Lenin survives another assassination attempt

It was On This Day in 1918, that Vladimir Lenin survived yet
another assassination attempt. This time Lenin had been speaking at a factory
in Moscow when Fanya Kaplan, a Social Revolutionist, shot him. Lenin survived and the Bolsheviks became even more violent and executed thousands.

The Times, out of LondonEngland,
announced that the paper heard rumors about an attack on Lenin however the
Russian Government is insisting Lenin was suffering from two shot wounds. The
Sydney Morning Herald reported that morning that Lenin was in deed shot twice,
once in each shoulder. One of the shots also affected his lungs.